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Re: guile scheme tutorial
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rendaw |
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Re: guile scheme tutorial |
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Mon, 13 May 2019 16:10:34 +0900 |
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On 5/9/19 1:35 AM, swedebugia wrote:
> On 2019-05-08 15:15, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
>> For what it's worth, most of rendaw's comments resonate to me, from back
>> when I first got started with Guix.
>>
>> But now, with hindsight, it's not obvious to me anymore what can be
>> fixed in the manual.
>>
>> I believe the reason for this is simply that Guix and all its
>> concepts are a lot to take for newcomers, it's simply too hard to digest
>> even after multiple readings. It takes time and practice.
>>
>> A well written manual might not be the only answer we are looking for. How
>> do we teach complex concepts in schools? With examples and exercises.
>> Maybe we should do that. Blog articles could be a good fit.
> +1
>
I'm definitely behind the examples thing. My guide has some (ex:
disabling root login) but it's not the first place you'd go looking for
that. I'm not sure I like blogs though - IMO those are good for topical
writing, like release announcements, admin changes, postmortems, etc,
but I'd never go there if I had a specific technical question and by
nature they're not organized for such use.
What about a wiki like what Arch does? I know nothing about wiki
administration, but the Arch wiki is full of basic (non-concept
information - how to install and configure package x or y) and specific
examples with snippets (how to enable a microphone in alsa).
Also if we're talking about 3rd party blogs TBH I think they're fairly
hard to find. Having an official curated list of 3rd party
documentation would be great, but nothing beats official documentation
for discoverability.
- guile scheme tutorial, amirouche, 2019/05/03
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Guy fleury, 2019/05/03
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Laura Lazzati, 2019/05/03
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, amirouche, 2019/05/03
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, rendaw, 2019/05/04
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/04
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, rendaw, 2019/05/07
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Ludovic Courtès, 2019/05/08
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/05/08
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, swedebugia, 2019/05/08
- Re: guile scheme tutorial,
rendaw <=
- Re: guile scheme tutorial, Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/05/13
- Guix cookbook (was: guile scheme tutorial), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/05/08
- Re: Guix cookbook (was: guile scheme tutorial), Pierre Neidhardt, 2019/05/09
- Re: Guix cookbook (was: guile scheme tutorial), Ricardo Wurmus, 2019/05/09
- Re: Guix cookbook, swedebugia, 2019/05/13
Re: guile scheme tutorial, amirouche, 2019/05/04
Re: guile scheme tutorial, rendaw, 2019/05/04